Shoulder Woes

7:30 am

                Well the guys are here, I just woke up (was up late last night), it is hot and really muggy, and I probably need to spend the day making phone calls.

                Went to the surgeon yesterday. I left here around noon, biked to the farm to get the car, changed, then drove down there. I was there early, around 2 for a 2:40 appointment, but then of course the appointment was late anyway, and besides that, I had not brought the report on my shoulder from whoever read the MRI so they had to call to get that faxed over, so I was first in the waiting room for ages, then in the exam room for ages. Thank goodness I brought my knitting. And then I got sick of knitting so I read for a bit and I even fell asleep which actually was refreshing.

                Wow those guys are really noisy today. Damn. And here’s the deal w the shoulder. Yes, I have a torn rotator cuff. And it will not heal on its own. That was what I had hoped. It does not bother me that much or that often, but he said it was easy for him to get it to hurt – asking me to push against him at certain positions, and lifting it up and around himself. And it will probably get worse, though he cannot say how fast, or even actually if it will. There are bone spurs (something BJ had also said) and the tendon rubs against those, which will probably not help at all. So I can have the surgery, to repair it and then it will not hurt any more. He would remove the bone spurs and reattach the tendon. Biggest problem is that the recovery takes a really long time as in 3 months. First 5 weeks in a sling basically not using the shoulder. Then lots of pt and gradually getting back to using it. So no biking for 3 months. And limited use of arm.

                So when????? I am actually kind of inclined to just do it NOW asap. Spend the summer doing basically nothing. Cancel the NY trip. Pluck/clip all buns possible now, then leave them for those months. Butchering will be an issue. I guess I could do the big babies I have now, then have to wait to do others.

                So today I want to put calls in to BJ, call the surgeon’s office, call re the NY ride (getting a refund). I could also do it in Dec but that would be harder for work. Or I could wait until next summer, but that means the whole summer would be shot. I could do it early May, then maybe be able to ride by August.

                It sucks.

                Yesterday I did not do a whole lot bc I had to go to that appointment. I did wind off the 3 oz, and I started spinning the last and left-over bits. I have more of the darker stuff than the pale, so I will add in some gray angora, alternately grabbing bits of each. I also made some carob granola bars. They came out ok, tasty enough, but crumbly, not exactly “bars.” Not sure how they’ll be when I try to cut them up.

                I finished As I Lay Dying and have started Light in August which is the only other Faulkner I have laying about. I thought I had Absalom/Absalom but I guess I finally got rid of it thinking that I had not read it in 15 years, time to give it up.

                I’m still tired. I have not done stretches, eaten anything, had psillium or anything at all. And I don’t especially want to do anything at all. Besides the other calls I must make, I need to call re the taxes again. Also sucks.

                The fair meeting actually went well last night. A few things were forgotten. But I think the secret was that they had some meetings before hand for example with the dog folk. There was minimal discussion about their stuff.

                Well what I should really do right now is my stretches. Then I guess eat bfast and feed buns their bfast.

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